This is the recording of a hybrid discussion session at the end of our 'Markdown, dive deep' workshop day on 23 May 2025 at KB Nationale Bibliotheek in Den Haag. 

This one-day workshop was organised by the Open Book Futures Experimental Publishing Group and brought together a group of writers, makers, and publishers to explore Markdown writing and publishing workflows for experimental digital monographs. The workshop was based on our work on two digital-first monographs that use Markdown writing and publishing for the mapping of heterogenous archives and bodies of writing. James Smith's project Deep Maps: Blue Humanities, a deep mapping of the challenger point, will take readers on a dive to the deepest point on Earth and back. Nirmal Puwar's project Hear Here: Spatial Practices undertakes a postcolonial mapping of the brutalist Coventry Cathedral as an internationally recognised post-war modernist infrastructure. 

In this online portion of the session, we shared our experience with these two book projects as starting points for a joint exploration of our experience with Markdown publishing using the publishing platform Juncture. Juncture is a digital publishing tool developed by JSTOR Labs for visual essaying that allows the author to dynamically display text alongside a range of other media materials.